An Event this Thursday and Sunday, including Blood Pudding Press poet, Lora Bloom

Blood Pudding Press poet, Lora Bloom, will be participating in this writing event this coming Thursday and Sunday!

"Liz Zimmerman has produced this amazing writers series for the Fringe in West Philly and I am honored to be participating in both Thurs the 13th for the sci fi/horror theme and on the 16th with a group of amazing women writers. On Thursday I will be reading selections from a YA sci fi story I am working on and on Sunday I will be reading selections from my Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook."

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You can partake of and/or acquire Lora Bloom's Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook,"Poking through the Fabric of the Light that Formed Us", HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/124662033/poking-through-the-fabric-of-the-light?ref=shop_home_active_3

NEW Review of Poking Through...by Lora Bloom (a 2013 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, reviewed by Lisa Cole)

A new book review written by Lisa Cole about the 2013 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Poking through the Fabric of the Light that Formed Us: Songs and Stories to Read in the Mirror" by Lora Bloom!

Here's the first paragraph - Lora Bloom’s new chapbook from Blood Pudding Press, Poking Through the Fabric of Light That Formed Us: Songs and Stories to Read in the Mirror is not for the faint of heart, or the faint of stomach. This is a place where undigested noodles, burps, projectile nausea, and chunks of eyelids are deemed normal, and things most often deemed beautiful are viewed in a new, less favorable, often ghastly light. This collection is filled with things grotesque and horrific but still captivating. In the poem “Remember,” for example, the sun “heaved its dry spew” and “bloodied itself on the earth’s rocky crags’ and in “Pizza Maker,” moons are “battered” “bloody” and “slaughtered.”

Read the rest here - http://moonglows-reviews.blogspot.com/2013/06/lora-blooms-poking-through-fabric-of.html#comment-form

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Lora Bloom is featuring a special art-drenched event in support of her "Poking Through the Fabric..." chapbook (July 7 in Philadelphia), during which she will have some of her chapbooks available for sale. Find out more here -https://www.facebook.com/events/521439394576304/

If you can't attend that event and would like to partake of her chapbook, it is also available for purchase in the Blood Pudding Press shop, here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/124662033/poking-through-the-fabric-of-the-light

Juliet Cook's chapbook, POISONOUS BEAUTYSKULL LOLLIPOP (also mentioned in the review above) is available from Grey Book Press, here -http://greybookpress.com/index.php/site/titles/

AND the poet who wrote the review, Lisa Cole, also has a chapbook published by Blood Pudding Press, RENEGADE//HEART, available here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/119192462/renegadeheart-by-lisa-mcole-new-2013?

Poet Hound Reviews Poking Through

"Lora Bloom’s words are fragmented images filled with refracting emotions throughout. It is an enticing and uncanny collection"

A bit of Poet Hound's perspective, offering samples from Poking through the Fabric of the Light that Formed Us: Songs and Stories to Read in the Mirror by Lora Bloom (published by Blood Pudding Press, 2013)

Read more here - http://poethound.blogspot.com/2013/04/poking-through-fabric-of-light-that.html

Poke through the Fabric here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/124664975/poking-through-the-fabric-of-the-light

Set of TWO – Get both NEW 2013 Contest Winning Blood Pudding Press Poetry Chapbooks

Set of TWO – Get both NEW 2013 Contest Winning Blood Pudding Press Poetry Chapbooks for a substantially lowered price when you buy them together – Renegade//Heart by Lisa M. Cole AND Poking through the Fabric of the Light that Formed Us by Lora Bloom

Each of these two newest Contest Winning poetry chapbooks costs $7.00 individually; with this listing, you will pay $10.00 for BOTH of them, saving $4.00

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RENEGADE//HEART by Lisa M.Cole 

"sleep with all the dolls/ /unhook your rotary phone and watch/ /the broken chandelier as it swings like a marionette/ / listen…” 

(from 2)

AND

Poking through the Fabric of the Light that Formed Us: Songs and Stories to Read in the Mirror by Lora Bloom 

“the beer in my blood washed through my thighs I could feel the trickle of my 
period waiting deep in my belly, the swelling of the rounded moon reflected there
from the towering window, crashing rain sang a fall midnight call, thunder
echoed against the walls of the sky I closed my eyes writhing under cold lens
like a microscope creature death pangs under eye of cold light”

(from Green Frog Princess)

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https://www.etsy.com/listing/125436850/set-of-two-get-both-new-2013-contest

Happy March/Poking Through The Fabric

In case you missed it last month, here's another morsel from the newest contest winning Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook treat, Poking through the Fabric of the Light that Formed Us: Songs and Stories to Read in the Mirror by Lora Bloom, now available from Blood Pudding Press here:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/124664975/poking-through-the-fabric-of-the-light

"With my sequined dress
and goosebump legs
I join in the drone
of the lost-soul blues
the ceiling so high
I am sure I am dreaming
all golden pillars
and marble floors
that thump against the rubber
soles of my boots
as I walk off the lights
that swallow the morning
the blue of the dawn
all smoky and salty"

from 30th Street Ballad

Poking through the Fabric of the Light that Formed Us: Songs and Stories to Read in the Mirror by Lora Bloom

“I am a broken glass sculpture
Shattered on the verge of a twisted lightbulb
Popping and sputtering filaments
Molded with cements
Infected stitches and shining shards
Randomly catch the sun”

(from Unanswered Question by Lora Bloom)

Blood Pudding Press is delighted to announce its second contest winning poetry chapbook of 2013, “Poking through the Fabric of the Light that Formed Us: Songs and Stories to Read in the Mirror”, with cover art including a uniquely gorgeous painting, “SummerLoveTangle” by Blueberrycrush (blueberrycrush.yolasite.com) and innards filled with fifteen poems by Lora Bloom.

Each chapbook is hand-bound with slightly furry binding threads and when you open the collection, Lora Bloom’s poetry is brimming with mind and body and blood based performance art spewed out and arranged into powerful words, sometimes dreamy sweet, sometimes dreamy scary, sometimes a one-of-kind fusion mix ensemble.

You know you want to peek and poke and prod into this unique realm of peculiar arrangements, such as “my other half of the best friend necklace / cracked somehow wrong” (from Bloom’s “Mused”).  

You know you want to take a closer look “behind my plastic smile / the frozen, blistered grimace” (from Bloom’s “Clown Girl”).

The chapbook can be purchased from the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop at http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress and can also be purchased directly from poet Lora Bloom, who is planning to host a special release party/performance event in Philadelphia sometime in March.  Stay tuned for more information on that timing and other details via the Blood Pudding Press blog.

(Feel free to contact Blood Pudding Press editor/poet, Juliet Cook for specific questions or review copies.)

Best, Blood Pudding Press